U-Roy

U-Roy came up on King Tubby's Hometown Hi-Fi.

U-Roy's breakthrough toasts were cut over Treasure Isle rocksteady.

U-Roy's breakthrough deejay records are associated with Treasure Isle rhythms.

U-Roy's 1970 number ones ('Wake the Town') were Duke Reid productions on Treasure Isle (Bass Culture).

U-Roy's toasts over Treasure Isle rhythms popularised the deejay 'version' B-side (Reggae Routes).

U-Roy repeatedly credited Machuki as the source of the deejay style.

U-Roy began deejaying professionally on Dickie Wong's Dynamic in 1961.

U-Roy's 1970 chart run took toasting from the dance onto vinyl and opened the studios to deejays.

U-Roy toasted 'Wake the Town' (1970) over this rhythm.

U-Roy was among the acts signed and released on Front Line.

Charlie Chaplin was mentored within U-Roy's Stur-Gav Hi-Fi collective.').

U-Roy turned toasting into a hit-making recorded form around 1970.

The channel's foundation-figure interviews include U-Roy.

Dennis Alcapone emerged in the early-1970s deejay wave directly alongside and inspired by U-Roy's pioneering sound-system toasting.

U-Brown modelled his name and style on U-Roy and toasted in his lineage on King Tubby's Hi-Fi.

Ranking Joe developed his fast-chat toasting in the U-Roy sound-system tradition, deejaying on El Paso and Ray Symbolic.

Its deejays worked in the toasting style U-Roy pioneered.

Scotty followed U-Roy's toasting breakthrough onto record in the early 1970s.

Winston Scotland was one of the deejays who followed U-Roy onto record in the early 1970s.

U-Roy's toast, 1970.

U-Roy's second 1970 Treasure Isle hit.

U-Roy's 1970 debut album for Treasure Isle.

Hudson was among the first to record deejay U-Roy (1969).

Collaborated with U-Roy on 'True Born African'.